Amazon To Let Libraries Lend Kindle Books

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:51AM from the i-won't-give-it-back dept.

Last month we reported that Amazon was confronting lenders of Kindle e-books. Today, thebian writes "Amazon announced yesterday that it would allow 11,000 libraries in the US to lend ebooks. The press release doesn't say exactly when this will start. Amazon is trying to speed the adoption of the Kindles. If people are slow to flock to the device the reason is the high prices the publishers cling to. Amazon itself sometimes undercuts Kindle prices, and almost always some booksellers on the Amazon Marketplace undercut the Kindle. There's no indication about what books might be offered through this program."

1 of 135 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Nook Color vs. Kindle by garcia · 2011-04-21 01:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

Hey, thankfully there are pros and cons for each device and people have a choice between the two major competing devices.
Some people like the openness of the underlying Android OS on the Nook Color and some people prefer the e-ink and Amazon ease-of-downloading on the Kindle.
To each their own. Glad you are enjoying yours and you find it the superior device. Me? I prefer old-school books and will continue to do so until they pry my entire library from my cold, dead hands.